Roger Williams University Students Learn from Election Day Exit Poll

From voters\u27 pick of presidential candidates to the top issues facing the country and the state, students gain hands-on experience conducting exit polls

Tim Baxter ’83 Elected Chair of RWU Board of Trustees

Baxter, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics, will be the first RWU graduate to lead the board

RWU Ranks Among Top 10 Percent in Nation for Encouraging Students to Give Back to Their Country

Washington Monthly’s new annual College Guide ranks RWU high in the nation for commitment to service

RWU Hosts Training on Evidence-Based Interrogation

Program for police detectives from Rhode Island and Massachusetts comes amid national debate about whether torture work

RWU Professor\u27s Study Finds More Risk than Reward in Brand Activism

Marketing professor co-authors journal article about “The Power of Politics in Branding” amid nation’s increasing political polarization

Marine Law Symposium at RWU Law to Focus on Legal Strategies for Climate Adaptation

Nov. 16 event will be part of RWU’s yearlong series, “Ocean State/State of the Ocean: The Challenge of Sea-Level Rise Over the Coming Century”

On the geometry of almost S\mathcal{S}-manifolds

An $f$-structure on a manifold $M$ is an endomorphism field $\phi$ satisfying $\phi^3+\phi=0$. We call an $f$-structure {\em regular} if the distribution $T=\ker\phi$ is involutive and regular, in the sense of Palais. We show that when a regular $f$-structure on a compact manifold $M$ is an almost $\S$-structure, as defined by Duggal, Ianus, and Pastore, it determines a torus fibration of $M$ over a symplectic manifold. When \rank T = 1, this result reduces to the Boothby-Wang theorem. Unlike similar results due to Blair-Ludden-Yano and Soare, we do not assume that the $f$-structure is normal. We also show that given an almost $\mathcal{S}$-structure, we obtain an associated Jacobi structure, as well as a notion of symplectization.Comment: 12 pages, title change, minor typo corrections, to appear in ISRN Geometr

Into the Unknown: Navigating Spaces, Terra Incognita and the Art Archive

This paper is a navigation across time and space – travelling from 16th century colonial world maps which marked unknown territories as Terra Incognita, via 18th century cabinets of curiosities; to the unknown spaces of the Anthropocene Age, in which for the first time we humans are making a permanent geological record on the earth’s ecosystems. This includes climate change. The recurring theme is loss and becoming lost. I investigate what happens when someone who is lost attempts to navigate and find parallels between Terra Incognita and the art archive, and explore the points where mapping, archiving and collecting intersect. Once something is perceived to be at risk, the fear of loss and the impulse to preserve emerges. I investigate why in the Anthropocene Age we have a stronger impulse to the archive and look to the past, rather than face the unknowable effects of climate change. This is counterpointed by artists, whose hybrids practices engage with re-imaging and re-imagining today’s world, thereby moving us forward into the unknown. ‘Becoming’ is therefore another central theme. The art archive is explored from multiple perspectives – as an artist, an art archive user and an archivist – noting that the subject, the consumer and the archivist all have very differing agendas. I question who uses physical archives today and how we can retain our sense of curiosity. I conclude with a link to an interactive artwork, which visualises, synthesises and expands this research